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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 means ostentatious in one’s learning, or overly concerned with minute formalisms?
(a) Apocryphal.
(b) Pedantic.
(c) Vorarbeiter.
(d) Ecumenical.

2. What literary work of Tadeusz Borowski is described in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) Waiting for Godot.
(b) The Metamorphosis.
(c) Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates.
(d) This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen.

3. Of the visitor, the narrator says in the conclusion of Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2, “The oppression seeping from these walls, he thinks, can only be deepened by his own misgivings as to” what?
(a) “Who he really is.”
(b) “What happened here fifty years ago.”
(c) “His guilt in the entire affair.”
(d) “Why he has come here in the first place.”

4. The traveler learns upon arriving in the city that the buses that go to his destination won’t be available before when, in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Next month.
(b) Monday.
(c) Spring.
(d) Summer.

5. The traveler is said to have once been a resident of what location in the U.S. in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(b) Queens, New York.
(c) New Brunswick, New Jersey.
(d) Los Angeles, California.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the traveler order for Wanda to drink when they return to the café for his luggage in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

2. What city does the traveler arrive in after taking a cab from the airport in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

3. What word used in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 refers to a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object?

4. What year does the narrator say it is in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

5. How long is the retreat to last, according to Dr. Stern in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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